When you say you saw no issues recovering data off partially full tapes,
do you mean recovering data that had been written prior to making the
stinit.def changes or recovering the data that was written after the
changes, keeping in mind, of course, that the tape may have been labeled
before the changes were made.

Thanks again.

George

Scott Russell wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 12:13:15PM -0500, George Sinclair wrote:
> > Will it be necessary to relabel a tape or label a "new" (unused) tape
> > for the new changes to take effect? In other words, let's suppose I add
> > the entries to the stinit.def file, reboot and then try to recover and
> > or write data to tapes. Will I still see the block error messages on
> > older tapes that were labeled from before the changes were made, but I
> > won't see them on tapes labeled after the changes were made or is it
> > retroactive?
>
> It's not retroactive. Content that was written before the stinit
> change still is using the old block size values and thus will generate
> the tape positioning warnings.
>
> I have no clue how tapes that are partially full are handled but in my
> experience we saw no issues recovering data off them after changing the
> stinit definition.
>
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